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Ab-Soul - Showin Love
Soul’s appearance is very misleading. Before I ever heard him rap I thought his shit was gonna be mad goofy and he would be the weak link of Black Hippy, but hes arguably one of the dopest in that crew
Fader just ran the full transcript of the conversation I had with Ab-Soul while researching the Black Hippy feature. Soul is a great rapper and a pretty fascinating person, one worth paying attention to. After the interview I asked him if he had anything else to add to the conversation, which is pretty customary Interview 101 stuff. It has become close to useless in the era of self promotion, as everyone just says “CHECK ME OUT ON TWITTER @RAPPERRAPPERNAMENAME. ALBUM DROPS NEVERUARY.” but Soul gave what might be the single greatest answer I have ever received: “Uh… save the whales?”
Soul falling backwards off of a treadmill, legs twisted like some sort of bumbling cartoon character was also pretty priceless. We bought out the gym that day, ten deep in street clothes. The woman at the desk refused to believe that Black Hippy were rappers because she had never seen them on TV. “They’re loser rappers,” TDE’s Dave Free jokingly explained, to which the she responded “Why would anybody want to write an article about loser rappers?”
I have since decided to have that question engraved on my headstone.
@absoul inspired me to get this tatt. - my mamas handwriting. now that . . (Taken with instagram) 6
